{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1959-04-15","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-06-24","city":"AUBURN","country_code":"US","county_code":"033","cruise_speed_mph":86,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17003","engine_horsepower":65,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"A&C65 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-19","maker":"Luscombe","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"LUSCOMBE","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8190104","mode_s_code":"50560033","mode_s_hex":"A2E01B","model":"8A","n_number":"N28461","name":"SMUTNY JOHN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Port Townsend","damage":"SUBS","date":"2021-03-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR21LA149","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s inadequate engine hand propping procedure which resulted in the airplane\u2019s unexpected movement and subsequent impact with a fueling station.","registration":"N28461","state":"WA","summary":"Accident on March 29, 2021 at Port Townsend, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N28461 is a Luscombe 8A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Auburn, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 15, 1959.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Smutny John, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 1959, 19 years after the 1940 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1328 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N28461 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N28461: Accident on March 29, 2021 at Port Townsend, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"1328","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"36850 204TH AVE SE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00500443","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N28461","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1940,"zip":"980929010"}